ROUNDUP Spring admission closed for CSUs

Kevin Reynolds kreynolds.roundupnews@gmail.com

California State Universities will be closing their admissions for the spring 2013 semester for most of their 23 campuses. This initiative will affect about

16,000 students that attend California State Universities. For the 2013-2014 school year CSU’s are considering putting prospective students on a wait list until the outcome of the November tax initiative.

Seven Hundred fifty million dollars were cut in funding for the

CSU’s last year. An additional $200 million will be cut if Gov. Jerry Browns tax proposal fails to pass in November.

This postponement will affect many Pierce College students who were hoping to transfer to a Cal State University in the spring.

“There isn’t anything we can do,”

Joanna Zimring Towne, director of career center said. “We have been telling students all year they(CSU’S) might not be open for the spring.

Most UC’s are not open for mid year transfers. Cal State Universities were usually the exception.

“There aren’t really a whole lot of options,” said Zimring Towne

Most but not all of the CSU’S will be closing their admissions.

“The campuses change their minds constantly,” Zimring Towne said. “Students should keep checking back in case things change.”

Students may be falling on hard times if the tax initiative does not go though.

There are usually anywhere between 90,000 to 700,000 fall applicants according to an article in the LA Times.

The CSU’S are attempting to reduce enrollment by 3 percent. Which would lower the number of enrolling students by 20,000 to 25,000.